z The paltry crowds outside and all around the Speedway today were astonishing. There were no huge backups of cars, no massive swarms of people flooding Georgetown Road or 16th St. The Coke Lot was nowhere near full. Where there are usually teams of State or Metro Police struggling to manage the key intersections around the track, today they were standing by idle.
Highlights of the actual race showed great expanses of aluminum without butts covering them.
Is this a visualization of the nation’s economic plight? Or is NASCAR, or at least the oval-track novelty of running Indy, on the wane?
And how much longer will Indy have a NASCAR race? The facility has new managment. Are they pure number crunchers or do they care about making/keeping tradition?
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I noticed the stands about 60% (?) full. Not a NASCAR fan myself but am told by fans that the race is viewed as being dull as cardboard.
I did see the last F1 race at Indy, attendance was roughly the same as today’s race, but those fans are Rabid. They’d attend if the race was held in a field in North Dakota.
I was at the race and it was a joke. The Nationwide race was a complete disaster
Over 30 years of attending races (up until maybe 5 years ago when I finally got tired of the traffic/walk/heat), I never saw an Indy or Brickyard that wasn’t packed like sardines — except for once when there was a couple days of rain delay and many didn’t return on Tuesday.